<h2><strong>About Pligg</strong></h2>
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    <strong>Pligg, </strong>originally named 
    <a href="http://meneame.net/">men&eacute;ame</a> in Spanish, is a web application that allows you to submit an article that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page.  When a user submits a news article it will be placed in the &quot;unpublished&quot; area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. The original source for Pligg was authored by <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmnm.uib.es%2Fgallir%2F&amp;langpair=es%7Cen&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8">Ricardo Galli</a>. He was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site <a href="http://digg.com/">digg.com</a>. <br />
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<h2><strong>Terms and Conditions </strong></h2>
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    <li><strong>Description of Service.</strong> Pligg is a free, online application from Pligg (the &quot;Service&quot;). You understand and agree that the  Service is provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. Pligg  disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability,  timeliness, security or reliability of the Service. Pligg also  reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with  or without notice at any time and without any liability to you.<br />
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<li><strong>Personal Use.</strong> The Service is made available to you for your personal use only. Due to  the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (which is  available at <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm">http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm</a>),  you must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to use this Service.  You must provide current, accurate identification, contact, and other  information that may be required as part of the registration process  and/or continued use of the Service. You are responsible for  maintaining the confidentiality of your Service password and account,  and are responsible for all activities that occur thereunder. Pligg  reserves the right to refuse service to anyone at any time without  notice for any reason.<br />
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<li><strong>Proper Use.</strong> You agree that you are responsible for your own communications and for  any consequences thereof. Your use of the Service is subject to your  acceptance of and compliance with the Agreement. You agree  that you will use the Service in compliance with all applicable local,  state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations,  including any laws regarding the transmission of technical data  exported from your country of residence. You shall not, shall not agree  to, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) use  the Service to upload, transmit or otherwise distribute any content  that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, obscene,  contains viruses, or is otherwise objectionable as reasonably  determined by Pligg; (ii) upload, transmit or otherwise distribute  content that infringes upon another party's intellectual property  rights or other proprietary, contractual or fiduciary rights or  obligations; (iii) prevent others from using the Service; (iv) use the  Service for any fraudulent or inappropriate purpose; or (v) act in any  way that violates the Program Policies, as may be revised from time to  time. Violation of any of the foregoing may result in immediate  termination of this Agreement, and may subject you to state and federal  penalties and other legal consequences. Pligg reserves the right, but  shall have no obligation, to investigate your use of the Service in  order to determine whether a violation of the Agreement has occurred or  to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or  governmental request.
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<li><strong>Your Intellectual Property Rights</strong> Pligg does not claim any ownership in any of the content, including  any text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video,  or other material, that you upload, transmit or store in your Pligg account. We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to  provide you with the Service.<br />
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<li><strong>Representations and Warranties.</strong> You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information provided by  you to Pligg to participate in the Services is correct and current;  and (b) you have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into  this Agreement and to perform the acts required of you hereunder.<br />
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<li><strong>Privacy.</strong> As a condition to using the Service, you agree to the terms of the  Pligg Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time. Pligg  understands that privacy is important to you. You do, however, agree  that Pligg may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information,  including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order to  comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a  search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise  provided in these Terms of Use and the Pligg Privacy Policy. Personal  information collected by Pligg may be stored and processed in the  United States or any other country in which parent company Pligg LLC or its agents  maintain facilities. By using Pligg, you consent to any such transfer  of information outside of your country.<br />
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<li><strong>Indemnification.</strong> You agree to hold harmless and indemnify Pligg, and its subsidiaries,  affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from and against any third  party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of the  Service, including any liability or expense arising from all claims,  losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments,  litigation costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. In such  a case, Pligg will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit  or action.<br />
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<h2> <strong>AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</strong> </h2>
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    <p>Version 1, March 2002<br />
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      Copyright &copy; 2002 Affero Inc.<br />
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      Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim   copies    of  this   license   document, but changing it is not allowed.<br />
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      The licenses for most software are designed to take away    your   freedom     to  share and change it. By contrast, the Affero General    Public   License   is intended  to  guarantee your freedom to share and  change  free   software--to    make sure  the  software is free for all its  users.  This  Public License  applies  to most  of  Affero's software and  to any other program whose authors  commit  to using  it. (Some other Affero  software  is covered by the GNU Library  General  Public  License instead.)  You can  apply it to your programs, too.<br />
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      When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom,      not   price.    This General Public License is designed to make sure  that     you have  the freedom to  distribute copies of free software (and  charge    for this service  if you wish),  that you receive source code or  can get   it if you want it,  that you can change  the software or use pieces  of it   in new free programs;  and that you know you can do these things.<br />
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      To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions  that   forbid    anyone    to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender   the  rights.    These restrictions    translate to certain responsibilities   for  you if you   distribute copies of   the software, or if you modify it.<br />
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      For example, if you distribute copies of such a program,    whether     gratis    or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the   rights that    you have.   You must make sure that they, too, receive or  can get the source    code. And   you must show them these terms so they  know their rights.<br />
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      We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright  the   software,      and   (2)  offer you this license which gives you legal  permission   to  copy,    distribute    and/or modify the software.<br />
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      11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE     IS  NO  WARRANTY     FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE     LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN   OTHERWISE  STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS  AND/OR   OTHER  PARTIES PROVIDE  THE PROGRAM &quot;AS IS&quot; WITHOUT WARRANTY OF  ANY KIND,   EITHER  EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,   INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,  THE IMPLIED   WARRANTIES  OF MERCHANTABILITY   AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE. THE   ENTIRE RISK  AS TO THE QUALITY AND  PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM  IS WITH YOU.   SHOULD THE  PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE,   YOU ASSUME THE COST  OF ALL NECESSARY   SERVICING,  REPAIR OR CORRECTION.<br />
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